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Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-039-a

Description: Mount Taranaki on the left in the distance. Two cottages in a clearing backed by tall trees in the middle ground, with fenced in gardens. In the foreground a field with sheep and cattle and hay being hauled on a cart by oxen. The artist is very likely to be Hannah Stephenson Smith who drew views of a later family home in Taranaki, and was also the sister of the author of the book in which this view appeared as the frontispiece. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Frontispiece. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 90 x 150 mm on sheet 120 x 180 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891; Gorton, Millicent, 1877-1966

Reference: A-036-004

Description: The artist's house and garden with Mount Taranaki in the background Identification, attribution and dates from Hannah Smith's other drawing Oku Warra Taranacki, 1851, A-090-032 Oku Warra, the home of the parents of Stephenson Percy Smith, was first occupied by the family in 1850 and burned down in 1860 during the Taranaki wars Inscriptions: Verso - Mrs Gorton, Badingham Rectory, Saxmundahm [sic], England, Suffolk Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on laid brown paper 130 x 122 mm (irregular)

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-039

Description: Mount Taranaki on the left in the distance. Two cottages in a clearing backed by tall trees in the middle ground, with fenced in gardens. In the foreground a field with sheep and cattle and hay being hauled on a cart by oxen. The artist is very likely to be Hannah Stephenson Smith who drew views of a later family home in Taranaki, and was also the sister of the author of the book in which this view appeared as the frontispiece. Compare with A-457-008-6 ("Okoara", New Plymouth, N.Z.), dated 1860 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Frontispiece. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 90 x 150 mm on sheet 120 x 180 mm

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891

Reference: A-457-008-6

Description: Mount Taranaki on the left in the distance. Two cottages in a clearing backed by tall trees in the middle ground, with fenced in gardens. In the foreground two figures can be seen, along with a number of sheep and cows The artist of this version is unknown, but compare with A-256-039 ("Okoaro". Cottage of J. Stephenson Smith Esq.re New Plymouth ...), attributed to the subject's wife and published in Hursthouse's 1857 work, three years before this work is dated On the verso are four pencil drawings of non-New Zealand scenes, probably England. One of the scenes is identified as 'Cookham Church', which is the Holy Trinity Church in the village of Cookham, Berkshire, England Extended Title - Originally published in: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Frontispiece Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - "Okoaro" / New Plymouth / N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 200 x 325 mm